Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-08-11

SUNDAYS Hutchinson Nelcs says "a
long boy dressed in big mouth and
pink shirt umpired the game here
Friday.
WE ARE in receipt of the premium
| list of the Fifth Annual Fair of Kan
sas, which opens September 10Th and
continues until the oath.
THE street car conductor at Garden
City is on a strike. We feel sorry for
Garden, and we tremble to think what
a dire catastrophe it would be to have
our street car force take notion to go
ON strike.
WELLINGTON is sending out cry
for a creamery; Ell Dorado wants hog
packery; Peabody has a silk wormery;
Hoisington is going to have young
foundery, and Great Bend gas we'll
cry.
WHAT are our gas we'll people doing?
This is question often asked of us
nowadays. We would like to see the
work commenced, for we believe it
will be the beginning of another good,
healthy enlivenment of the real estate
business.
WE WOULD like very much to see a
good, square game of base ball between
Great Bend and Scott City, played on
neutral ground and with fair and
unprejudiced man as umpire. But we
do not want to see another game where
the umpire tries to steal the game and
/ the crowd tries to bulldoZe the umpire.
WE BELIEVE some knowing prognOs-
ticators of the weather told us, at the
beginning of the year, 1887, that this
would be year of devastations. Thus
| far Kansas has not suffered from a
single, live, funnel-shaped, hOuSe-twis-
ter and tree-prller, and as the cyclone
season is about past we are inclined to
believe the weather prophets were
somewhat off in their calculations.
THERE is no need of the people OF
Kansas borrowing trouble on account
of the present dry spell. With splen-
did oat and flax and potato crop, with
an abundance of nearly all kinds OF
fruits, larger wheat crop than is
needed to supply the home demand, a
much better corn crop than Illinois or
Iowa, and with hundreds of thousands
of bushels of old corn, there is not
much occasion for apprehension or
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croaking. Sterling Bulletin.
A GENTLEMAN just returned from
the east says the drOuth has been worse
there than people i'll this state think
for, still the citizens of Illinois and
Ohio are feeling very sorry for Kansas.
Men who have to drive stock to 10
miles to water, AID are using hot,
stagnant pond water for domestic pur-
poses are wondering what we poor
people out here in Kansas are going to
do for something to eat the coming
winter.
| \ REMARK made by one of the gam
blers who came here from Scott City to
bet on the ball game, that 1--WE don't
say Scott City can beat Great Bend on
the square, but we can do it for money" :"
about sizes up the principle upon
which that outfit expected to win the
game. We believe the Scott City club
is composed of gentlemen, and exceed
ingly good ball players, but when they
permit game to be handled like that
of yesterday they make a great blum
der.
THROUGH Illinois and Ohio the veg
citation has been so thoroughly dried
up that numerous fires have been
started by sparks from railroad en-
gineS. We talked with a gentleman
yesterday who said that in some parts
of this state the same deplorable state
of drouth was experienced, notably
along the Solomon valley. where he
came through day or two since and
saw numerous prairie fires. He also
said that corn looked better i'll the Ar
kansas valley than anyplace else in the
state through which he travelled.